I'm still in Hangzhou, China.

What Hangzhou is Famous for

Welcome to the London of the East. After some days of rain, our Chinese teacher told us that Hangzhou indeed is famous for its rain. Ouch!

Food

We're all totally fed up with Chinese food. Went to Restaurant Muenchen (Munich) two days ago. Although they didn't have German food, they had Western food (Pizzas, Spaghettis, Steaks). It was great there. Yesterday I was at the Irish Pub in Hangzhou. They are quite expensive but have great food there. Aah, what a delicous plate of fresh salad (you usually don't get such a thing in China). The Hamburger was tasty, too.

I bought potatoe chips/crackers with Sushi flavour some days ago. You never find such curiosities in good ol' Europe.

I tasted a chicken claw last weekend. It turned out to be delicious having the best meat of the chicken.

What's GPL in Chinese?

I found an English-Chinese dictionary for IT vocabulary yesterday. It even has entries for "Linux", "GPL", or "KDE". There is no entry for "GNOME", though. How unfair!

What a Waste of Time

There was an excursion to a joint venture in Hangzhou on our program. We visited the CocaCola Company there. What a waste of time! After a free coke and a short summary of the history of CocaCola and some international and national TV ads for CocaCola, they showed us a small part of their production halls, and that was it. It was quite dissappointing.

Economy

We had a lecture about Chinese economy and law this afternoon. After some discussion with the professor, we realized that the current socialistic market economy in China is less socialistic than in many European countries. Funny!

Photos?

I was asked about adding photos to my diary entries. In fact, I have made lots of photos, but I can't upload them in the internet cafe here. The photos will become available online when I'm back home in Germany. Be patient.